Scientology: The Threat Of Scientology

without the support of the family. Members who do leave can also expect to be harassed with threatening phone calls, letters and frequent visits by current Scientologists. Scientology should be seen as a danger to anyone who wishes to join because it plays with the mental state of both its current and former member through the detailed and remembered auditing process, excommunication of family, and constant harassment.
The physical abuse and other crimes committed toward problematic members and reporters that threaten society illustrate how dangerous the group really is. Even though the goal of Scientology is to create a better world, Scientology used to have a “fair game” policy that states that any person who is a threat to the group may …show more content…
The group was even able to get Cooper’s fingerprints on the paper where the threats were printed. Cooper was arrested for these threats, but was let go after the FBI found evidence of the plans during a raid in 1977. But, even members of the group are not immune to the danger Scientology brings. Around 2003 the current leader of the church, David Miscavige announced that all the top executives of Scientology were suppressive persons and placed into a double wide trailers. 40 to 50 people were placed in these trailers under guard because they were dangerous. Mike Rinder, one of the people forced into what the group deemed “The Hole” describes the conditions by saying , “‘Everyone sleeping with only about six inches on either side. Above you. Below you. Getting up in the middle of the night, you’d disturb everyone,” Rinder says, and more than once compares it to the madness of Lord of the Flies’” (Ortega 1). The floors of these trailers were covered in ants, there was no furniture so many had to stand for hours, members were forced to fight each other, and the executives were bathed with a hose. The trailers were placed in …show more content…
For 25 years, the IRS refused to give the group the status of tax exemption that many religions have. All of a sudden, the group gained this status on October 8th 1993 for seemingly no reason. In a 1997 New York Times expose’ the paper uncovered that, “Scientology's lawyers hired private investigators to dig into the private lives of I.R.S. officials and to conduct surveillance operations to uncover potential vulnerabilities, according to interviews and documents” (Frantz 1). Individual members of Scientology took out lawsuits on individual member of the IRS. The amount of people that were about to be sued would have cost numerous amounts of money in legal fees. However, once the IRS sent out tax exemption